Cochin Thread!!!

[mema2003]

Thanks for telling me. I was trying too say a cactus or hen and chickens and I could not think of sedum. I don't have that sedum but I do have two other kinds. Mine doesn't grow like that though. it just kinda stays in one tiny area.

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

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there is LF and then there is a bantam form. the bantams get about 2 lbs so they are small and easily handled. the LF can be easily handled to but can be a lot bigger (not sure of weights since i don't keep the bigger ones) no real special care other than putting Vaseline on their combs during the winter months while it is cold. they are wonderful to watch running to and from you!

mine like to follow me a lot in the garden.

i just had 4 little bantam cochins hatch the last couple of days. here's a pic of 2 of them with my bantam mahogany faverolles pullet.

being camera shy

 

[Coopa Cabana]

Austinhart123, I'm drooling

over your blues and splash! Well done!!!!!!!

 

[Coopa Cabana]

Is anyone working on BLR Bantam Cochins? Any pics you can post? You can also PM me privately.

 

[hippichick]

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That would be a beautiful color in Cochins. Any idea how that would be created?

 

[Msbear]

I've been hearing a lot of talking about them and wouldn't be suprised if someone is working on them. I would be happy to see some good silver laced or gold laced. I think gold laced would probably be where you'd need to start and maybe cross with red??? totally shooting in the dark with that one...

 

[hippichick]

Sounds like the perfect project for you, Erin.

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

i just found a wonderful color for pekins (aka bantam cochins) over in the UK, salmon! the young cockerels look darker than the females so it looks like they can be color sexed sooner! http://www.freewebs.com/danspekins/thepekin.htm it looks like they have to cross a Colombian with either a buff or red to get the colors.

i found another site last night that had pics of the young chicks of both sexes but i can't find the link now.

 

[DANNY]

Chickie'sMoma :

i just found a wonderful color for pekins (aka bantam cochins) over in the UK, salmon! the young cockerels look darker than the females so it looks like they can be color sexed sooner! http://www.freewebs.com/danspekins/thepekin.htm it looks like they have to cross a Colombian with either a buff or red to get the colors.

i found another site last night that had pics of the young chicks of both sexes but i can't find the link now.

Did those Salmon birds look sort of like these I have?

 

[Coopa Cabana]

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In very simple terms, I've heard/read that Gold Laced x Blue Splash will produce 100% BLR. But I can't believe it's that easy . . . if it were, I think everyone would have them! (If you use Blue rather than Blue Splash, offspring would appear 25/50/25, as they do in Blue x Blue.) And I'm told you should start with the reddest/most golden-laced you can find.

Brian Reeder writes on BLR in his "Color Forms" book as follows, in the section under eb Varieties Based on s+:

"Blue Laced Red - This variety is a darker version (no dilute) of Golden Laced to which one dose of blue is added to make the darker blue laced while two doses of blue are added (Bl/Bl) to make the light form of blue laced which is actually a splash laced red. The genome is eb/eb s+/s+ Ap/Ap Mh/Mh Co/Co Pg/Pg Ml/Ml Bl/bl+. The lighter colored or splash birds are the same genome except they are Bl/Bl. Some of these birds are segregating Db while "rb" is also seen in some lines. The correct name is alternately Blue Laced Mahogany Columbian Red Brown, or Blue Laced Red Brown for short, as Laced implies Co/Pg/Ml. The light version would be a Splash Laced Red Brown."

Any thoughts or interpretations of this?